Use "cotton on" in a sentence

1. Maggie examined it with care, like I had a Victoria's Secret bra made out of diamonds and not the simple cotton one I wore today

2. Before Robert could cotton on he continued quickly, ‘Apropos of that, I’m having second thoughts

3. ice or stone,” I said and started to play with the loose piece of cotton on

4. Pity, of course: but somehow you can't cotton on to them someway

5. Always an army chaplain—some unshaven, dirty man, girt with a sword and with a tiny cross embroidered in white cotton on the left breast of a lieutenant's uniform—would follow, cigarette in the corner of the mouth, wooden stool in hand, to hear the confession and give absolution; for the Citizen Saviour of the Country (Guzman Bento was called thus

6. That priest was a big round-shouldered man, with an unclean-looking, overgrown tonsure on the top of his flat head, of a dingy, yellow complexion, softly fat, with greasy stains all down the front of his lieutenant's uniform, and a small cross embroidered in white cotton on his left breast

7. blue cotton one with a black sprig pattern which had formerly done duty there

8. Gandhi took up spinning cotton on a simple spinning wheel and insisted that his followers wear Indian homespun cloth, instead of cloth imported from Britain

9. For the improvement concerning the article of cotton only, the patent is extended to twenty-one or twenty-eight years, as now proposed, while exclusive rights to the other inventions are permitted to expire